[PDF] Top 20 Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run

... information from individually observed BBHs to compute the corresponding background, see ...derived from the O1 detections. With these assumptions, we compute the background, includ- ing ... See full document

... arising from digital systems, we estimate the contamina- tion from the ...error from environmen- tal correlated noise, we construct a correlated noise bud- ...The first step is to measure the ... See full document

... of gravitational-wave detectors is the detection of a sto- chastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB)—a super- position of unresolvable gravitational-wave signals of ... See full document

... transient gravitational-wave events, commonly referred to as GW bursts, during the first observing run (O1) of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 2015 to ... See full document

... The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors [1, 2] have completed their second observing run (O2) which lasted from November 30, 2016 to August 25, ...O2, ... See full document

... the Stochastic Transient Analysis Multi-detector Pipeline - all sky (STAMP- AS) pipeline (Prestegard 2016; Thrane & Coughlin 2015), and the X-pipeline Spherical Radiometer (X- SphRad) (Fays ...the first ... See full document

... ’ s ranking ...as from seismic events [44,45] or magnetic fields [46,47], and instrumental effects, such as test mass suspension glitches [48] and other sources of spectral features ...the background ... See full document

... The LIGO and TAMA collaborations have completed their first joint search for gravitational-wave bursts, using 473 hr of coincident data collected during early ...millisecond-duration ... See full document

... the advanced detectors, we are targeting an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity relative to the previous generation of detectors over a wider frequency ...the first detection, could also change ... See full document

... the advanced detectors, we are targeting an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity relative to the previous generation of detectors over a wider frequency ...the first detection, could also change ... See full document

... H. Overmier, 6 B. J. Owen, 79 A. E. Pace, 81 J. Page, 129 M. A. Page, 59 A. Pai, 110 S. A. Pai, 55 J. R. Palamos, 66 O. Palashov, 121 C. Palomba, 32 A. Pal-Singh, 31 H. Pan, 82 B. Pang, 58 P. T. H. Pang, 87 C. ... See full document

... its first observing run, Advanced LIGO has observed gravitational waves from the coalescence of two stellar-mass BBHs, GW150914 and GW151226, with a third candidate ... See full document

... for gravitational wave bursts in LIGO’s S2 run has seen significant improvements introduced in the search methodology and interpretation with respect to ...motivated wave- forms as part of the ... See full document

... of gravitational waves [1] (GWs) has started a new era in astronomy ...years Advanced LIGO [4] and Advanced Virgo [5] will be targeting a wide variety of GW sources ...GWs from cosmic ... See full document

... a stochastic background which can be probed over a large range of frequencies by different ...the first constraints on cosmic strings ...using Advanced LIGO data collected between ... See full document

... the first directed continuous wave searches for isolated non-pulsing neutron stars in data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run ...initial LIGO and ... See full document

... in gravitational waves at 150 Hz and scale as E 1 GW / 2 , so it is greater for more energetic sources (such as binary black ...the upper and lower ...derived from timing triangulation, but vary ... See full document

... in gravitational waves at 150 Hz and scale as E 1 GW / 2 , so it is greater for more energetic sources (such as binary black ...the upper and lower ...derived from timing triangulation, but vary ... See full document

... a LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave ...tional wave searches for sub-solar-mass ultracompact bina- ries used data from initial LIGO observations from February 14, 2003–March ... See full document

... In this paper, we present an all-sky search for un- modeled long-duration (10–500 s) transient GW events. Astrophysical compact sources undergoing complex dy- namics and hydrodynamic instabilities are expected to ... See full document